Improvement in cane-cutters



' ,J. P; BRYAN Machine fOrIC-utting Sugar Cane.

' Patented July 8, 1843.

Xhographcr, Washington, a c,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. v

JOHN PQBRYAN, OF PRINCETON, KENTUCKY.

IMPROVEM ENTlN CAN E-CUTTER'S.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 3,158, dated July 8, 1843.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN P. BRYAN, of Princeton, in the county of Caldwell and State. of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful i Machine for Cutting Sugar-Cane with Horse part in the drawing, four inches Wide, being three-eighths of an inch thick, theother four inchesotthewidthtbrmingthe blade,beiugbeveled to the edge on one side, with two holes in the thicker part to receive the support of iron braces 0 running in upon the cross-frame of the carriage hereinalter described, for the purpose of extending or contracting the sphere of the knives according to the distances of the rows of cane. These knives are secured to a carriage or sled, A, which would be'perfectly represented by a pair of sleigh. runners. Across these runners areplaced three pieces of plank, B B B to the front one of which, B,

on each side,are secured, with arms 0 and.

bolts, the heads of theknives,ant.l to the other two, B E the braces U 0 by which itis intended to extendand contract them, the crossplanks and iron braces being pierced with corresponding holes to keep the knives in the desired position. eight to twelve inches high, according to the depth of the fut-row, and will present the knives with a very oblique stroke at the cane just at the surface of the earth, the machine to be drawn by a-horse in shafts and directed by a tnan behind,who will govern it with handles, as with a plow.

What 1 claim as tny invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- i The form of the knives 1), their oblique application, and the method of arranging them in conjunctionwith the runners or carriage A, as above specified and described.

JNO. P. BRYAN. Witnesses: B. LATHROP, Fits. ROBERTS.

The carriage will be from 

